Exhibition 'Masterpieces of the Radishchev Museum Collection'

About exhibition

The exhibition presents the collection of one of the oldest and largest museums in Russia, whose holdings comprise more than 33,000 works of painting, graphic art, sculpture and decorative-applied arts. The display is divided into sections of Old Russian and ecclesiastical art (13th–18th centuries), Russian art (18th–early 20th centuries), Western European art (15th–mid-19th centuries), and memorial rooms. Visitors will learn about the museum's founder, A. Bogolyubov, one of the outstanding figures of the 19th century, a marine painter and the grandson of A. Radishchev, who donated his collection of Russian and European art to Saratov. The pride of the collection includes not only paintings by prominent representatives of the Russian school—D. Levitsky, I. Repin, V. Polenov, A. Savrasov, A. Bogolyubov, I. Levitan, V. Serov, K. Korovin, V. Borisov-Musatov, P. Kuznetsov, K. Petrov-Vodkin—but also a collection of European art rare for a provincial museum: from medieval painting and sculpture (works by masters of the 15th–16th centuries) to celebrated names of the 18th–19th centuries—A. and O. Achenbach, L. Knaus, B. Plockhorst, A. Kaufmann, C. Corot, Ch. Daubigny.